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BACON, CHARLES; b.; adm. 1 Jul 1772; left 1777. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, John Bacon, adm. same day] [Probably Charles Bacon-Grey, younger brother of William Bacon Forster (see below under William Bacon); bapt. Auckland St. Andrew, co. Durham 5 Jun 1762 (IGI) (as Charles Bacon); assumed additional surname of Grey; of Staward and Styford, Northumberland; m. 29 Apr 1790 Dorothy Grey (IGI); d. 18 Sep 1830]

BACON, SIR EDMUND, BART., son of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart., MP, Gillingham, Norfolk, and Susan, dau. of Sir Isaac Rebow, Kt., MP; b. 7 Aug 1725; adm. Feb 1735/6 (Armfeild's); left 1743; succ. his father as 6th baronet 2 Oct 1738; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Oct 1743, matr. 1743; MA 1746; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll. from Michaelmas 1746; a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to George II from 7 Sep 1747; d. unm. 6 Apr 1750.

BACON, SIR EDWARD, third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon Kt, Lord Keeper, and his first wife Jane, dau. of William Fernley, West Creeting, Suffolk; b.; it is stated in Al. Cant. that he matr. at Cambridge Univ Mich. 1561 (aged 12), as a fellow commoner of Trinity Coll., but if so he then went to the School; adm.; QS in 1564; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1566, Westminster Student to 1573; BA 1569/70; adm. Gray’s Inn 1566, ancient 21 Nov 1576; MP Great Yarmouth 1576 - Apr 1583, Tavistock Nov 1584 - Sep 1585, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Oct 1586 - Mar 1586/7; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1600-1; knighted 11 May 1603; m. Helen, dau. of Thomas Littell, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk; d. 8 Sep 1618, aged 70. DNB, s. v. Sir Nicholas Bacon.

BACON, HENRY BOWMAN, son of Henry Bacon, Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London, attorney, and Jane Sketchley, Newark, Notts. (IGI); b. 3 Sep 1796; adm. Christmas 1812; left 1813; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1813, aged 16, matr. Mich. 1814; BA 1818; MA 1834; ordained deacon 1819 (Chester, lit. dim. from York), priest (York) 17 Dec 1820; Curate, Thurgarton and Hoveringham, Notts.; of “Upton College” on marriage; m. 1839 his cousin Helen Jemima, dau. of Samuel Sketchley, Newark, Notts.; d. 27 Aug 1858.

BACON, JOHN; b.; adm. 1 Jul 1772; left 1778. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, Charles Bacon, adm. same day] [probably John Bacon Forster, younger brother of William Bacon Forster (see below under William Bacon); bapt. Auckland St. Andrew, co. Durham 20 Nov 1760 (IGI) (as John Bacon); m. 1st, 7 Jun 1784 Elizabeth Hurst (IGI) [check]; m. 2nd, 7 Apr 1786 Sarah Beaver (IGI) [check]; m. 3rd, 21 Jun 1792 Mary Lilliat, dau. of Richard Drinkwater (IGI) [check]; buried Long Horsley, Northumberland May 1799 (IGI)]

BACON, MONTAGU, second son of Nicholas Bacon, Shrubland Hall, Coddenham, Suffolk, by Lady Catherine Montagu, sister of Hon. Oliver Montagu (qv); bapt. Barham, Suffolk 13 Dec 1688; at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb., iii, 13); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 16 Feb 1704/5, aged 16, matr. 1705; MA 1734; adm. Middle Temple 29 Mar 1704, called to bar 15 May 1715; Commissioner for Hawkers and Pedlars 15 Jun 1715 – 7 Mar 1724; subsequently ordained; Rector of Newbold Verdon, Leics., from 1743; author, Critical Historical and Explanatory Notes upon Hudibras, 1752; d. 7 Apr 1749. DNB.

BACON, RICHARD; b.; in school lists 1734-8.

BACON, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1744/5 (Gibson's); left 1750.